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22 hours ago, AlJS said:

Does anyone have anymore information on this old bakery? I would love to bring it back to life. 

The owner has for many years refused to let anyone do anything with it. However, someone who knows him mentioned on a Facebook community group (Only in Meersbrook or one of those) that he was willing to consider someone taking it on. Perhaps post on one of those and ask if anyone has his contact details. It does look a mess and has a negative effect on the  number of new independent businesses which have opened around there in the past few years.

4 minutes ago, RollingJ said:

Nice rant - feel better now?

Shouldn't you be down Greggs ranting about small boats? Or sinking your third pint of warm Brexit bitter down Spoons with your gammony mates?

It's got worse since Brexit. The people who voted leave have become fatter, smellier and noisily proud of the fact. The country really is going to the dogs and there is a real poverty of aspiration among leavers. It's no wonder Lanzarote has said fat Brexity types are not welcome, stomping around gobbling sausage rolls with brown sauce smeared on their faces with their enormous hairy bellies hanging out (and that's just the women). The decent and reasonable among us need to start standing up for what is right and make the change happen. Let's rejoin the single market and customs union and allow mutual free movement as an absolute minimum and show the smelly leavers that having no education and a determination to ruin our children's futures is not someting to be proud of.

11 hours ago, sportbilly1701 said:

I tell you what surprised me.  We went for a wander round Sheffield a couple of months back, and the Norfolk Park area seems completely transformed.

 

I was born in Sheffield but moved away as a teenager, but I remember it being a place to avoid.

 

Looks ok now, or is that deceptive and it's still rough?

Well  Norfolk Park has always been a bit mixed and never fully to avoid, even though parts of it were dodgy. It has some great positives: right next to the city centre, near the train station and next to a huge park. Some of the roads around the park such as Norfolk Road have incredibly grand, well-maintained Victorian villas which have always been very desirable. Then the closer you get to City Road the more "rough" it becomes, and quite quickly, up towards the Manor. But in a general sense, the "rougher" parts have improved.

I guess it depends how much you want to have access to the tram network. The areas which are considered the "nicest" in Sheffield aren't on the tram network. If you think of Sheffield as a clock face, the most "desirable" areas are everything from 6 to 10 o'clock - start at Meersbrook and stop at Walkley. Walkley is the closest to the tram network, but also probably the least "desirable" of the "desirable" parts of the city. Obviously, this is all subjective opinion. There are some other "nice" places  but they tend to be dotted around, more surrounded by less desirable places.

With surveys showing only 32% now think Brexit was a good idea, how do people think Sheffield is benefiting from the benefits delivered by Brexit?

That's terrible to hear. Since the Brexit mentality took over it's been a race to the bottom in this country. It's no wonder the rest of the world looks on and laughs at us.

4 hours ago, echo beach said:

There's a lovely, detached house in the village where I live which is looked after but has never been occupied since its construction in the '80s. It must by now have a beautiful avocado bathroom suite and a retro kitchen!

Rumour has it that the owners' wife did not want to move from where they lived which is only about 3 miles away.

The money that has been wasted by not selling or renting the place, beggars belief. Present value, circa £600k.

Some folks have more money than sense!

 

echo

 

To be honest, that sounds like an incredibly good investment given what's happened to house prices in this country since the 80s. The would obviously have earned more renting it out but they will have still made a mint.

15 hours ago, cgksheff said:

My funds have been averaging 12% over the last 10 years .

My principle is growing quite nicely, but after a point will no longer need to be maintained.

Millions of people manage to buy a house on an annual income if far less than 50k.

That's an excellent and - I would guess - quite unusual level of return on your investments? You certainly couldn't expect to see that. Don't they say 4% as a safe income?

If invested wisely, you could draw down 3% of the total each year without affecting the initial amount - some would say 4% but I'm trying to be realistic. So you could take an income of £30,000 a year while maintaining the million pounds (and, if lucky, it could grow). So a 20 year-old might struggle as they would have to consider rent/working towards buying a home and any associated mortgage. Someone who has all their ducks in a row (small/no mortgage and all the possessions they could want) could make it work if they lived sensibly. 

I'd say your best bet from that seletion is Heeley around Tillotson Rise. Very near the nicer parts of town, easy access to the city centre and close to nice bars/restaurants/shops.

Brexit Britain.

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On 01/08/2020 at 13:52, RLTS1234 said:

Yes i do know her,give me some time i am in the process of arranging it for sale.

Hi there, do you know if the owner is still planning to sell the building? I know lots of people are looking for spaces to open round there

10 minutes ago, arthurseaton said:

If I were you I'd rent somewhere around Sharrow Vale or Meersbrook for at least a year.  Then, with your budget, you'll be in a good position to pick up one of the many bargains that will soon be appearing in these big buy to let, student rental areas. The impact on this market will be seismic but it's not going to change overnight. So if you can be patient and sit things out on the sidelines you'll be able to take your pick from a host of decent properties that would previously be out of your budget. Good luck

The impact on prices in buy-to-let student areas will be very big, which is why prices in Crookes/Walkley etc. are stagnating or dropping. That isn't the case in Meersbrook though, which isn't a student area.

6 hours ago, Jeddo said:

Hunters Bar has whittled down its student population now quite considerably thanks to 'zero tolerance' community associations who have hounded them out since the ghetto years,  which was why these associations formed themselves to combat the student scourge.  Plus the new purpose- built accommodation in the city centre areas have been a Godsend.  Hunters Bar landlords struggle to get students to rent there now, as the word has obviously gone out, and have agreed with each other via the landlords associations to stagger the sale of their buy to lets to keep prices up. All good for us. We won't rest till the students have all gone. They are a nuisance every single day for one reason or another -bins left on streets, windows open with bass beat sounds day and night, pungent odours, litter etc.

Not sure about Hunters Bar but previously student-heavy Crookes has seen house prices drop over the past few years, against the trend for Sheffield as a whole. 

I imagine any beauty salon would be suitable. Has your friend had difficulty finding one? 

Blimey. Where are you? Will keep an eye out.

It sounds like you want to be looking in the south-west of the city (depending on where work would be) which is well-known for its schools, good housing, relative safety and a mix of good parks etc. Be aware that all postcodes have better and worse parts, but think of Sheffield as a clock face and you won't go too far wrong with the section between 6 o'clock and 9 o'clock.

S7: Nether Edge, Millhouses

S8: Meersbrook, Beauchief/Abbey Lane, Norton

S10: Crookes, Crosspool, Nether Green, Endcliffe, Fulwood, Ranmoor

S11: Banner Cross, Ecclesall, Whirlow, Greystones, Sharrow Vale

S17: Dore, Totley, Bradway

I was going to suggest S2 as an option for that budget in a decentish area - perhaps around Norfolk Park but that might be pushing it. If not, perhaps further out at Handsworth.

3 hours ago, lazarus said:

Idiots who live here cause problems plus other idiots come here from Arbourthorne , the Manor estate, the council has given homes to loads of immigrants that bring its own problems, litter and fly tipping is a problem, if only you could have seen the estate fifty years ago it was brilliant, you can only blame the council for letting it get in the state it now is i.e. giving properties to teenagers and problem families.

Sadly its the same everywhere these days.

It's not the same everywhere. It's a council estate. Owner-occupied areas don't have those problems.

15 hours ago, Soph/Chris said:

Hi all, 

 

Me, my partner and our 2 weeks old baby boy are wanting to move to Sheffield in the next few weeks however we are unsure on areas. I used to live in Sheffield 2008-2011 however I lived in town and i've been made aware areas have changed a lot. Basically i'm looking for advice on which area to live? I need it to be a safe area for my partner and son so I don't worry about them when i'm not around. Any help would be appreciated . 

 

Thanks in advance 

 

Chris, Sophie and Alfie

What's your budget and what kind of house are you looking for?

6 hours ago, Hogg said:

This is spot on - if you want to live among other professionals and have good schools close by you need to look at the postcodes quoted above, plus some parts of S7 (Netheredge) and S8 (Meersbrook).  Check out the ofsted reports, most of the secondary schools in the North of Sheffield don't have their own Sixth Form.  

This sums it up to be honest. If you want to live amongst middle-class professionals (ducks to avoid thrown bricks) you're looking at most, if not all, of S10, S11, S17, parts of S8 (Meersbrook, Beauchief) and S7 (Millhouses, most of Nether Edge).

15 hours ago, lil-minx92 said:

I'll get some stick for this but the M1 side of the city is not where the areas it sounds like you are looking for are sited. Generally- this has been said many times - if you look at the city on a map, the area between 7&10 o'clock houses the most desirable postcodes- S10,S11,S17 and close to. This is generally seen as where the 'professionals' live. Unfortunately for you, its the opposite side of town for the M1 & getting to & from the M1 at rush hour from the western suburbs isn't much fun, although I did it for a few years and you kind of get used to it.

The areas you have mentioned are OK,  but I wouldn't class them as suburbs of Sheffield and it might be pushing it to say they were 'middle class'.

I agree with the idea behind what you say, but I think looking at Sheffield as a  clock face from 6 to 10 o'clock would be a better guide for the middle class areas.

17 hours ago, Stakeholder said:

Just an update on the thread...

I saw a house that I liked near city centre, advertised on rightmove as accepting offers around 200-210... The owner informed me that received an offer of 222k!

The neighbors house (semi attached to this one, same size/layout), was sold for £196k in Feb, 2018.

 

is the house market is Sheffield that crazy or the seller is bluffing?

Where is this house? Some areas of Sheffield are going for a fair whack over asking price these days.